Edward Brooks Keffer collection concerning Hopkinson forgeries : photostatic reproductions, after 1949.

Format:

• Other

Author/Creator:

• Keffer, Edward Brooks, 1896-1967, compiler.

Contributor:

• Cole, Alwyn.
• Hodges, Fletcher, Jr., 1906-2006.
• Carson, Marian S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791--Forgeries.
• Weisburg, Charles Bates.
• Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791.
• Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia.
• Forgery of manuscripts--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
• Forgery of manuscripts.
• Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Penn Provenance:

• Transferred from the Free Library of Philadelphia, 2004.

Physical Description:

1 volume (56 leaves)

Place of Publication:

after 1949.

Biography/History:

President of the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia, 1947-1961; son of Edward Iungerich Keffer, who was involved in the acquisition of the supposed Hopkinson manuscripts for the Musical Fund Society and donated his large collection of 18th- and 19th-century sheet music to the Musical Fund Society.

Summary:

Bound volume in which are mounted negative photostatic reproductions of a report by Alwyn Cole, Examiner of Questioned Documents at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, dated 1942, in which he analyzes the supposed Hopkinson manuscripts as forgeries, with photographs from the manuscripts; correspondence from Fletcher Hodges, Jr., curator of the Foster Hall Collection at the University of Pittsburgh, to which Charles Bates Weisburg had offered forged Foster materials, to Keffer, dated 1941; and a letter from Marian S. Carson to Franklin H. Price, librarian at the Free Library of Philadelphia, dated 1949, concerning the authenticity of Hopkinson manuscripts owned by the "Welkey brothers" (Philadelphia book dealers Henry and Paul Woehlcke).

Publications about:

Discussed (see note 44) in Anderson, Gillian, and others (including Penn Music Librarian Brad Young). "Forgery in the music library: a cautionary tale." In Notes, Second Series, volume 60, number 4 (June 2004), 865-892.

OCLC:

792738813